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Laughlin ____ Mohr. Tele. Rm.___ Holloman. Gandy ae hes oO (SAUCERS ) eae fs PHYSICIST No Scott SAID TODAY THAT THOSE FLYING "THINGS® OPLE HAVE B SEEING Y BE "ANODE GLOWS® CAUSED BY IONIZATION Or THIN AIR IN THE UPPER. ATMOSPHERE, ONE eed NONTSCOTT FEELS THAT WAY IS THAT HE HAS PRODUCED FLYING = | SAUCERS* IN HIS LABORATORY AT FORT BELVOIR, VA,, WHICH POSS THE CHARACTERISTICS ATTRIBUTED TO THE RADAR-SPOTTED "OBJECTS" REPORTED HERE IN RECENT WEEKS « SCOTT WAS NOT TALKING ABOUT THE BRIGHT METEOR WHICH FLASHED ACROSS THE NORTHWESTERN SKIES HERE SUNDAY NIGHT, BUT ABOUT WHATEVER IT IS THAT HAS BEEN PRODUCING "BLIPS" ON AIR FORCE RADAR SCREENS, TIVE SUCH UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS® WERE SPOTTED BY RADAR AT NEARBY ANDREWS AIRFORCE BASE IN MARYLAND SHORTLY BEFORE LAST MIDNIGHT, AS A RESULT OF HIS CREATIONS IN THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT BORATORIES “AT FORT BELVOIR, SCOTT SAID, "I AM CONVINCED THAT THESE MPLYENG THINGS * ARE NATURAL PHENOMENA, ” — SCOTT HAS BEEN CONDUCTING EXPERIMENTS WITH A LARGE VACUUM JAR UNDE NDITIONS SIMULATING THE RAREFIED AND IONIZED UPPER ATMOSPHERE, BY LONI ZING THE THIN AIR IN HIS BELL JAR WITH STATIC ELECTRICITY Rott AT WELL PRODUCED BALLOON-LIKE BLOBS OF LIGHT WHICH HE COULD MOVE | AROUND AT ANY DESIRED SPEED, ALL, HE SAID, COULD HAVE BEEN DETECTED® BY RADAR, : REVERSE THEMSELVES, OR WINK OUT, pie ieee BY ALTERING THE’AIR PRESSURE HE CHANGED THE Color FROM A NEON-LIKE’ ORANGE TO WHITE OR BLUE OR WHITE WITH A GREEN HALO, WE COULD MAKE THE OROBS APPEAR TO LEAVE AN INCANDESCENT TRAIL LIKE AJET DISCHARGE, |" SCOTT EXPLAINED THAT AN "ANODE GLow® FORMS ON AN TONIZED ECTRIFIED) LAYER OR VOLUME OF GAS WHICH IS POSITIVE IN RESPECT To E SURROUNDING ATMOSPHERE, SUCH GLOWS COULD OCCUR ANYWHERE FROM 59 000 MILES UP, HE SAID, DEPENDING ON CONDITIONS OF ATMOSPHERIC. ESSURE AND IONIZATION. 8/6--151259P a) ar TDED 24) Bs j ee 98 AUG 11 1952 6 5 AUG 141952 WASHINGTON CITY-NEWS SERVIER —